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May 6-7, 2010,Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

Jason Cornez

Jason had the good fortune of being introduced to Lisp by Gerry
Sussman and Hal Abelson themselves while at MIT earning degrees in
Computer Science and Mathematics. He then spent nearly a decade doing
enterprise software development, mainly in C++ and Java, at startup
companies around Silicon Valley. During this time he came to the
conclusion that returning to Lisp would make writing software much
more fun and productive.

Since 2003, Jason has enjoyed the privilege of being a professional
Common Lisp developer at RavenPack in Marbella, Spain. Currently as
CTO, Jason leads a team that has developed a system to read and
analyze real-time news feeds and archives of historical news. The
result is "News Analytics", machine-actionable facts and sentiment
extracted from the news, provided as a data feed to global financial
firms.

Jason is passionate about good software engineering practices and
finds Lisp to be the ideal vehicle for taking concept to code. He
still subscribes to the notion that "programs must be written for
people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."